Udupi, May 17: A chicken stall owner was allegedly assaulted by seven persons at Hoode here on Saturday May 17, for no apparent reason.

Mohammed Ais (42), a resident near Hoode fish market was allegedly assaulted by the group. He was later admitted to Ajjarkad hospital.

File picture

Mohammed runs a chicken stall and has a catering business too.

It is said that on Saturday evening, seven persons came in four bikes and barged into his stall and reportedly assaulted him with soda bottles. When he tried to escape, one of them caught him while the others attacked. He somehow managed to free himself and ran for his life.

Mohammed said that while being chased, the attackers even pushed his 10-year-old daughter aside.

Of the seven persons, Mohammed identified two as Nithin Poojary Hoode and Ganesh. The other five were unknown to him, he said.

Mohammed said he did not know the motive behind the attack, but in his statement to the media, expressed suspicion that the minor tension that prevailed during BJP’s victory rally on May 16 in Hoode may have been the reason.

He further said that following the tension at Hoode during the victory celebration a person by name Fahad called MLA Pramod Madhawaraj and then district incharge minister Vinay Kumar Sorake, but when they did not respond, he called KPCC secretary M A Ghafoor who asked the police to tighten the security at Hoode. However, Mohammed complained that though police personnel were present at the time of the attack on Saturday, they did not come to his rescue.

Mohammed said that at the time of the incident, he had just prepared food at a cost of Rs 50,000 as part of his catering business for a nearby school, but as shards of broken soda bottles fell into the vessels containing the food, it all went waste, he said.

Malpe police have registered a case in this regard.

Comments on this Article

Ronnie D’Souza, Mumbai

Thu, May-14-2015, 10:09

Is this the current news or last year news. Since the dates do not match.

Agree[1]

Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

Tue, May-20-2014, 1:18

We all know how he won elections doing Fekugiri and now the proof of the pudding is in the eating...

Agree[2]

Rajesh, Malpe

Mon, May-19-2014, 10:25

@ Jossy, Whatever the past please don’t forget that Mr. Modi is the next PM of INDIA. So, automatically, all need to respect that post as he got this through a clear mandate from the people and so it is duty of all to respect that post than giving importance to people like Jossy, who do not have the words like respect and forgive in his dictionary.

Agree[1]

Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

Mon, May-19-2014, 12:44

If Joker can be published why not Duffer. I wonder what makes Kemmannu guys scared ...

Agree[2]

Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

Mon, May-19-2014, 12:34

Joker is the accepted so why not DUFFERS...

Agree[2]

CDS, Kemmannu

Sun, May-18-2014, 10:32

Whatever is the fact, once elected as "Raja" PM designate Mr. Modi and his followers are expected to follow the "Rajadharma". BJP’s leaders are well advised to be gracious in victory and keep their goondas in check and not to do such uncivilized acts.

Disclaimer: Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Kemmannu.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article. Please note that under 66A of the IT Act, sending offensive or menacing messages through electronic communication service and sending false messages to cheat, mislead or deceive people or to cause annoyance to them is punishable. It is obligatory on kemmannu.com to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.
Hence, sending offensive comments using kemmannu.com will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Kemmannu.com be held responsible.
Similarly, Kemmannu.com reserves the right to edit / block / delete the messages without notice any content received from readers.